Engineering Laboratory (Record) Books Motivation Most individuals naturally keep a written record of various aspects of a large project. Many Engineering firms provide their employees with the means to record this information. This serves many purposes: makes the company eligible for ISO certification (e.g. ISO9001); provides a record of design decisions and their backup; provides a convenient place to record information; provides a tool for the company to pass your project to a colleague in the event of your departure; provides a set location to review this older information; and substantiates design decisions in the event of litigation. All students are asked to record project information in a hard cover laboratory notebook. Please number the pages of the entire book, if you have chosen a book that does not come with page numbers pre-printed. All entries in this book should be in pen. You may use a lab book that is also used for other courses; however, ensure that there is a dedicated EE Capstone Design section. Please flag this section when submitting your lab book at the end of the term. Grading This rubric will be used to evaluate your lab book records: LabBooks. (Note that this has been corrected from what was previously communicated: rather than multiplying the marks for each of the two categories, a weighting approach has been taken. This results in a continuous distribution.) GTAs are asked to make a mark in students' lab books at the end of of each laboratory period in order to ensure that records kept are current. Please ensure entries are recorded in pen; all pages are numbered; all entries are dated; appropriate information is recorded: meeting minutes, raw data, logs of activities and discussions, and decisions relevant to the project and its execution; it is legible; that records are kept up-to-date; and that time spent on activities is recorded. This last item is intended as a way for you to correlate estimated time for tasks with the time actually taken.